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Meaning:

Noun:

  • bowling the act of knocking down all ten pins in on the first roll of a frame
  • a blow or application of physical force against something
  • An old English measure of corn equal to the bushel.
  • a work stoppage
  • baseball a status resulting from a batter swinging and missing a pitch, or not swinging at a pitch in the strike zone, or hitting a foul ball that is not caught
  • cricket the status of being the batsman that the bowler is bowling at
  • finance In an option contract, the price at which the holder buys or sells if they choose to exercise the option.
  • the primary face of a hammer, opposite the peen

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Verb:

  • intransitive To stop working to achieve better working conditions.
  • nautical To capitulate: to signal a surrender by hauling down the colours.
  • nautical To haul down, or lower a mast, a flag or cargo, etc.
  • ''(theatrical)'' To dismantle and take away the set; (''strike the set'')
  • transitive Of a clock, to announce (an hour of the day), usually by one or more sounds.
  • transitive To delete or cross out; to scratch or eliminate.
  • transitive To hit.
  • transitive To impress, seem or appear (to).
  • transitive To manufacture, as by stamping.

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